{"id":238768,"date":"2017-06-27T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=238768"},"modified":"2017-06-28T16:43:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:43:04","slug":"is-mitch-mcconnell-this-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/27\/is-mitch-mcconnell-this-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Mitch McConnell This Smart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Is Mitch McConnell this smart? I have a theory for you. Is Mitch McConnell this strategic? Does he care this much? Try this thought. Did Mitch McConnell put a Trojan bill, Trojan horse in front of the CBO? In other words, did he purposely write a bill that would create this CBO score? &#8220;Your bill is going to cost $22 billion and cost 400 million lives&#8221; or whatever it says. So that he could learn why and how they scored it the way they did. Once the CBO scores it then McConnell goes back to the drawing board. They have to provide the math. CBO, when they present their score, they have to present their formulas for having shown how they arrive at the number.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062717-Mitch-McConnell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062717-Mitch-McConnell.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062717-Mitch-McConnell-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>So McConnell, once the CBO scores that Trojan horse bill, can write a bill according to their math, that they have to score positively. Does McConnell think that way, do you believe? I\u2019m throwing this out as a possibility. Could it be what we\u2019re dealing with here? Could McConnell purposely have written a bill that would get this score with this methodology so as to find out how they were gonna score things, what their math was gonna be, and then take that and write a new bill and dare them to come up with the same score and thus expose what the CBO is doing?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just throwing it out. The flaw is the CBO\u2019s never gonna score anything favorable for the Republicans. What if McConnell can expose that, though? What if the Trojan bill exposes that the CBO is not nonpartisan? Does he even want to do that? You know, these guys swear by the CBO. Look, you know me, Mr. Optimistic, I\u2019m just looking on the bright side. I know it seems out of character, but I\u2019ve never believed the CBO is nonpartisan, never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The flaw is the CBO&#039;s never gonna score anything favorable for the Republicans. What if McConnell can expose that, though?  What if the Trojan bill exposes that the CBO is not nonpartisan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Mitch McConnell This Smart? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/27\/is-mitch-mcconnell-this-smart\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Is Mitch McConnell This Smart? - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: The flaw is the CBO&#039;s never gonna score anything favorable for the Republicans. 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